Catalogue description Captured ship: Concordia , Arendt Buck, master. History: Bremen merchant ship bound from...

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Details of HCA 32/176B
Reference: HCA 32/176B
Description:

Captured ship: Concordia, Arendt Buck, master.

History: Bremen merchant ship bound from St Eustatius to Amsterdam laden with sugar, coffee and cotton, captured on 6 April 1758 between Beachy Head and Dungeness by the John & Stephen privateer (Richard Ball, commanding) and taken into Dover.

Documents:

1) Court Papers: examinations; standing interrogatories; claims with schedules; translations of ship's papers.

2) Ship's Papers (21 documents, most in Dutch), including:

  • receipts for ballast, light and harbour dues, beer, oranges and lemons, and customs paid, 1757 (nos. 1 to 12);
  • 'Equipagii Boek' (ship's inventory) (no. 13);
  • muster roll of Concordia and part of a journal (no. 14);
  • advances of wages to crew (no. 15);
  • account of cargo taken into Concordia lying at St Eustatius (no. 16).

(Some more of Concordia's ship's papers may be found among the papers of Biesewig, Buck and Wretling in HCA 32/176C).
Date: 1757 - 1758
Related material:

See also HCA 32/176C
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: HCA 32/176 part 2; HCA 30/265, HCA 30/270, HCA 30/271, HCA 30/683, HCA 30/684 and HCA 30/689
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Dutch and English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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